A little bit of something beats a lot of nothing. Break the largest of difficult tasks into the smallest of steps and it can be done.

The seasons do not push one another; neither do clouds race the wind across the sky. All things happen in their own good time.

When we feel stuck, going nowhere-even starting to slip backward-we may actually be backing up to get a running start.

This planet is a divine school, and daily life a classroom. Our choice of teachers depends on what we need to learn.

If we lose touch with our heart's wisdom, then no method avails; if we love, then nothing else is necessary.

If there is a central theme to what I called "a peaceful warrior's approach to living," and to The Four Purposes of Life, it is that there may be innumerable techniques or methods one can learn (from the Eastern spiritual cultures and from the Western psychological tradition), but that above and beyond all these technologies waits the school of everyday life.

Allow rather than resist what arises in the present moment-inside or out. Let it be interesting rather than good or bad.